Sierra Leone Govt Ousted
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) MONROVIA (Liberia), April 19. Sierra Leone’s new military regime has declared it will hand the country over to civilian rule as soon as possible.
The regime, which ousted Brigadier Andrew JuxonSmith’s military government yesterday, broadcast a proclamation to this effect over Sierra Leone Radio last night. Earlier the radio said the mutineers had set up a council of 14 under Warrant Officer First Class Patrick Gordon to take over administration of the country. The radio quoted a Ser-geant-Major Rogers as accusing Brigadier Reformation Council of going
back on its word to hand over the government to civilian rule as soon as possible. Reports said Brigadier Juxon-Smith and Major William Leigh, chairman and deputy chairman respectively of the . council, were under house arrest. But diplomatic sources in Accra said it was understood they were held at Wilberforce barracks, just south of Freetown, the capital. The sources said the mutiny began at Daru barracks, also near Freetown, in protest at poor pay and conditions.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31659, 20 April 1968, Page 13
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